[ DIRECTOR & STORYTELLER ]

J. Penberth Rabold, film director, screenwriter and storyteller

Selected work

Way Too Soon — Music Video

Way Too Soon

Music Video · 2022

Connected — Short Film

Connected

Short Film · 2019

Familiar Faces — Music Video

Familiar Faces

Music Video · 2020

Almost Super — Pilot Proof of Concept

Almost Super

Pilot Proof of Concept · 2020

Palm Springs Weekend — Music Video

Palm Springs Weekend

Music Video · 2022

Writer · Director

I tell stories about people trying to find a way to each other.

Fifteen years on set as a unit production manager and first AD taught me how movies get made. Writing taught me why. Now I make my own, from short films and music videos to a Rust Belt love story called Dallas & Allegra.

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Dallas & Allegra — a short film, Love Is Destruction

Now / Next

Dallas & Allegra

Love is destruction.

She's got a plane ticket to Oxford. He's got a safe full of cash and one last score. In a steel town built on dead dreams, they fall for each other anyway, and discover the fastest way out of hell is straight through it, together.

The filmSupport it on Seed&Spark

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